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Monday, November 3, 2025
Transformative Project - Gabriel Florea
Descent
For this project, I wanted to explore the feeling of surrender — that suspended moment between falling and finding calm. I chose this image of a falling figure surrounded by floating rocks and clouds to represent the struggle between control and release. The upward movement of the clouds and rocks contrasts the figure’s descent, creating the illusion that the world is moving on while the subject drifts freely through it. I used After Effects to animate the slow rise of the elements, giving the piece a dreamlike and weightless motion.
Images:
Background:
https://unsplash.com/photos/green-trees-covered-with-fog-V-cRTBktmwc
Rocks:
https://unsplash.com/photos/large-boulders-sit-under-a-bright-blue-sky-TuT1KGY6Y3c
https://unsplash.com/photos/gray-rock-formation-on-white-sand-during-daytime-zFZBN5JF3Jk
https://unsplash.com/photos/two-large-balancing-rocks-under-a-clear-blue-sky-1bOPbQttu24
Clouds:
https://unsplash.com/photos/white-clouds-and-blue-sky-during-daytime-A9_IsUtjHm4
https://unsplash.com/photos/a-white-cloud-floating-in-a-blue-sky-DI0lcyNziMA
https://unsplash.com/photos/a-white-cloud-floating-in-a-blue-sky-1420aJRYzJk
https://unsplash.com/photos/a-white-cloud-in-a-blue-sky-kP-BEkRHsOw
Transformative Project -- Jordan Harper
Early Morning Game
For this project, I decided to use this portrait of my late Nana at a bingo game night. I wanted to make this piece reflect her and things she liked as much as she enjoyed playing bingo. This includes everything else in the clip: a nice porch, flamingos, rainy/stormy days, seashell windchimes, and a pair of yellow chairs that she had (she really liked the color, haha). I used After Effects to animate the lightning, rain, raindrops bouncing from the grass, and the wind affecting other elements.
No generative AI was used.
Images I incorporated:
Flamingo decoration, under the Unsplash license, https://unsplash.com/photos/pink-flamingo-on-brown-sand-during-daytime-Q7W_YQTAF1w
Chairs, under the Unsplash license, https://unsplash.com/photos/two-chairs-and-a-table-on-a-porch-5urBxoebDbQ
Shell Chimes 1, under the Unsplash license, https://unsplash.com/photos/a-group-of-seashells-hanging-on-a-wall-vXGttTRIW6k
Shell Chimes 2, under the Unsplash license, https://unsplash.com/photos/a-group-of-sea-shells-hanging-from-a-blue-pole-Q0iSY3cCsY4
Covered Porch Table, under the Unsplash license, https://unsplash.com/photos/a-wooden-table-in-a-wooden-cabin-Nu9kQOIfuNg
Thompson_Transformative-Portrait
Edge of the Universe
For this project, I wanted to create a video that felt mysterious, yet oddly satisfying and calming. I chose to capture myself in a way where I am standing on top of a glass surface where I'm looking at a swirling galaxy below the glass. Clouds and glowing stars are slowly moving around me. In the background there is an image of two horses from a massive sculpture in London that I captured a photograph of. I wanted there to be hints of blue and pink to exaggerate an extraterrestrial, starry feeling. I also inserted the skyline of a city in the background to give the video a modern, futuristic aesthetic. My overall concept was to have myself standing between reality and the unknown, essentially watching as a dream consumes you. I wanted the viewer to wonder where the subject had disappeared to.
Galaxy and glass paneling created by Adobe Firefly
Video by Ali Mehdi from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/blowing-cigarette-smoke-in-the-air-5152378/
Video by Samphan Korwong from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/illustration-of-a-galaxy-6961824/
Video by Borys Zaitsev from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/stars-on-sky-12336923/
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